Epic Games is worth $17.3 billion following a $1.78 billion round of funding.

A scandal in Estonia. A number of the Limestone Games employees, including the studio’s founder, resigned, accusing the owners of creating “unbearable work conditions,” manipulation and corruption. Uncertainty surrounds the future of their game Aeon Must Die!, which is published by Focus Home Interactive.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is well on its way to becoming the biggest Nintendo game. It is already one of the biggest releases of the current generation of consoles. The game almost caught up with one of the best-selling games of recent years, Red Dead Redemption 2.

As early as this week, employees of Blizzard Entertainment will present workplace improvement requests to the company’s management.

According to MBLM’s Brand Intimacy 2020 Study, PlayStation is the strongest brand among millenials in the US, especially among men. Among Gen Z, Xbox tops the list.

A spreadsheet was leaked online which apparently contains data on Blizzard employees’ salaries. This seems to be the document created by one of the employees last week and contains information on nearly 400 workers.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II has reportedly generated $2.75 billion in lifetime revenue. This could mean that Black Ops II is the highest-grossing title in the franchise.

Thomas Altenburger, one of the two devs behind the French indie studio Flying Oak Games (best known for NeuroVoider, Dead End, and Hoy), has posted a thread on Twitter discussing strategies for a great pitch.

Detroit: Become Human has sold more than five million units, developer Quantic Dream announced via a press release.

Anita Sarkeesian has launched the Game and Online Harassment Hotline as allegations of sexual harassment and abuse continue to plague the video games industry.

Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier is looking into wage disparity at Blizzard Entertainment. While some employees barely make ends meet and have to skip meals, executives receive millions in compensation.

Beyond Good & Evil has joined the list of games that are being made into movies.

Commenting on its Q1 FY21 financial results, EA said that 52% of its console full game unit sales over the past 12 months were digital.

Feng Shixin, the Deputy Director of the Publications Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department, spoke at ChinaJoy (July 31-August 3, 2020) about the video games industry in China.

Epic Games Store now supports mods. The platform is only beginning to test this feature, which right now is limited to a single title, Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries.

Last year, Autodesk launched Maya and 3ds Max Indie, reduced-price subscription to the tools for indie devs earning under $100,000 a year. However, it was only available in the US, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and Australia.

India can ban PUBG Mobile as part of its ongoing crackdown on apps from Chinese companies, Gadgets 360 reports.

With no E3 this year, platform holders and Ubisoft still generated massive viewership numbers on Twitch. In fact, “decentralized announcement events” that big companies had to run this year brought more viewers than E3 2019 did. This is according to Carter Rogers, Principal Analyst at SuperData.